A Short History of Expo-Flora glasshouse
Former glasshouse „Expo-Flora”, a „Plant Biology Didactic Base” today,
was completely abandoned after the Revolution, mean while when almost
all herbs and woody plants got dried, excepting 3 palms and a coconut
tree. In 1996, the glasshouse was taken by University of Oradea, being
given to Faculty of Sciences since 1997, to serve the disciplines of
plant biology domain, which are studied during the college and master
years, because these represent about 30 percent plant biology or
connected segments.
Engaged as floral exhibition in 1977, was completely abandoned in 1989 for more then 5 years. This period along all plants have got dried, except 3 palm trees and one coconut tree.
With
financial efforts, supported by the University of Oradea, in the summer
of 1996, the glasshouse has began to be transformed into a modern high
studying place for botanic disciplines as: plant morphology and
anatomy, plant taxonomy, plant physiology, plant eco-physiology,
cytology, ecology, phyto-pathology, plant biotechnology, plant cells
cultures, secondary products of metabolism from plant biomass, etc.,
and later it became an important edge of Transilvanian research,
constituted in the Biological Research Center of the University of
Oradea.
The location of the greenhouse at the entrance of
Bratianu Park has made from this point a feasible touristico-botanic
complex, where our students, with other studious youth from Oradea, but
not only, take contact lively with various plant species, which have a
didactic, scientific and, not in the last place, an ornamental value
(tropical plants).
Today, into the glasshouse, the didactic and the plant biology research
teams, acknowledged inside and outside Romania for the research
contracts, publications and their prestigious journal (The Annals of
University of Oradea - Biology Fascicle, indexed in many international
databases and rated as B+ by CNCSIS) develop their activites. Our
students are involved in the research teams, beside their teachers, and
they participate togather at different scientific events, and publish
together their articles, some of them internationally appreciated.
We are visited many times by numerous scientists and pupil groups from
Bihor county and other conterminous counties.
The research team
Representative images of our activity